things i'm grateful to marxism for:

• points out that working hours are *not* a quantity that equilibriates under supply and demand, but does some other weird thing
• telling me (correctly) that a 9-5 job is a very unnatural state for a human being to be in, and that a very big effort had to be exerted to bring it about & maintain it (school)
• primitive accumulation and expropriation of the commons was real and important in the development of industrial societ

@sophon
they all feel kinda connected
primitive accumulation → break humans to have uniform working hours → keep that inflexibility

(this might be the rare occasion where i might accept "class warfare" as an explanation!)

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@niplav @sophon wait, I think the 8 hour day was an enforced compromise by unions, wasn't it?

Like previously (or in Chinese factories today) people worked 12 hour days 7 days a week or something.

Not to mention subsistence farming, which is effectively always on call.

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